Resume

• 2016

  Tulane University

  • Evaluate commercially available online sensors to monitor water quality\n• Evaluate the Effect of Land Application of Class A Pelletized Biosolids on Cotton Yield in Southern Arizona\n• Instructor for Environmental Microbiology lab and TA for Pollution Science

  The University of Arizona

  Research associate

  Project Team Member for WateReuse Research Foundation

  2012. WateReuse-11-01: Monitoring for Reliability and Process Control of Potable Reuse Applications \n• Evaluated the Effect of Land Application of Class A Pelletized Biosolids on Cotton Yield in Southern Arizona

  The University of Arizona

  Teaching Assistant

  Instructor for Environmental Science Lab

  \nTutor for Air and Water Microbiology

  Microbial Source Tracking

  Georgia College

  Tulane University

  Assistant Professor

  Undergraduate teaching focus on the Environmental Health (Water Safety and Vector Control

  Food microbiology

  environmental bioremediation

  microbial source tracking

  environmental bioinformatics

  Water Quality and Health

  Food Safety

  Water Reuse

  Environmental Microbiology).

  Fresno State

  ASM

  Member

  Member

  International Water Association

  Nepali

  Hindi

  Spanish

  Outstanding Graduate Student

  Georgia College

  Outstanding poster

  17th Annual Water Reuse & Desalination Research Conference

• 2014

  Best Poster

  29th Annual WateReuse Symposium September 7-10

  Dallas

  TX

  Travel Award-

  American Society of Microbiology

• 2011

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Environmental microbiology

  Graduate and Professional Student Council Representative for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)\nTravel Grant Judge\nMember of SWES Graduate Council \nEarth Week

  University of Arizona

• 2008

  BS and MS

  Biology and Environmental Sciences

  GCSU International Club

  Environmental Science Club

  Georgia College

  Biostatistics

  Environmental Microbiology Lecture and lab

  Environmental Physics

  Molecular Virology

  Emerging Environmental Contaminants

  Food Microbiology and Biotechnology

  Air and Water Microbiology

  Intro to Scientific Research

  Bacterial Source Tracking

  Microbial Genetics

  Environmental Conservation

  Plant Cell Physiology

  Nat/Culr History of Galapagos Islans

  Plant Systematics

  Evolutionary Plant Anatomay and Evolution

  Emerging Issues Water Quality

  Molecular Microbial Ecology

  Pathogenic Microbiology

  Advanced Insect System and Biodiversity

  The University of Arizona

  Laboratory Chemical Safety

  Basic Biohazard Protection Course

  The University of Arizona

  Blooborne Pathogen Safety

  The University of Arizona

• GCSU Regional Science Fair

  Judge

  21st Graduate and Professional Student Council Graduate Showcase

  University of Arizona

  Tucson

  AZ

  GPSC University of Arizona

  Environmental Health

  advanced oxidation processes

  Scanning Electron Microscopy

  PCR

  Metagenomics

  qPCR

  waterborne pathogens

  Environmental Microbiology

  DNA extraction

  Drinking Water Quality

  Water Quality

  PCR primer design

  ELISA

  Water Treatment

  Food Safety

  Direct potable reuse

  DNA sequencing

  Environmental Policy

  water reuse

  Water Management

  Microbial Sensors

  Evaluation of Select Sensors for Real-Time Monitoring of Escherichia coli and Bacillus thuringiensis in a Model Water Distribution System

  Charles Gerba

  Ian Pepper

  Land Application of Biosolids

  Evaluate the Effect of Land Application of Class A Pelletized Biosolids on Cotton Yield in Southern Arizona

  Jeff Silvertooth

  Huruy Zerzghi

  Ian Pepper

  Monitoring for Reliability and Process Control of Potable Reuse Applications

  •Real time monitoring of compounds of concern need to be coupled with plant operational conditions and key process variables;\n•Evaluating the presence of compounds of concern in influent sources to alert operators to conditions requiring closer attention;\n• Establishing the absence of compounds in product water to help validate the quality of water introduced into drinking water supplies;\n•Evaluating the effectiveness of treatment barriers to identify any treatment deficiencies in a timely way to avoid producing substandard or off spec water;\n•Detection of the deterioration in the performance of key barriers to alert treatment system operators to the need for equipment modification or replacement

  such as membrane elements or upgrading of secondary barriers

  such as advanced oxidation; and\n•Real time test systems to verify the integrity of treatment barriers and therefore bolster regulatory agency and public confidence in DPR

  while eliminating the need for an environmental buffer as currently required by most IPR regulations

  Shane Snyder

  Ian Pepper

  Minkyu Park

  Hyeweon Yu

  Tarun Anumol

  Microbial Source Tracking

  Evaluated Physical

  Chemical and Microbiological Parameters of Water Quality in the Harris Neck Estuarine Marshes along the Georgia Coast\nDetection of human fecal contamination in Puerto Rico

  Trinidad and Georgia

  Shanu Markhand

  Dave Bachoon

  Sherchan

  PhD

  MS

  REHS

  Dr. Sherchan’s areas of expertise include infectious diseases

  bioinformatics

  environmental virology

  microbiology

  water quality and water reuse. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Environmental Microbiology

  Food Safety

  Infectious Diseases

  Environmental Health Concepts

  Environmental and Human Health

  Water quality management

  WASH and Global Health

  Public Health Microbiology

  Hazardous waste management

  Water Reuse.\nHis research interests include the following: environmental monitoring

  health-related water microbiology

  water quality

  food safety

  microbial source tracking

  microbiome

  human health

  environmental epidemiology

  environmental metagenomics

  environmental microbiology

  emerging contaminants

  water reuse

  water treatment

  waterborne diseases

  public health

  Samendra

  Georgia College

  The University of Arizona

  Fresno State